EDUCATION

B.A., Brown University, 1989
M.A., Rutgers University (New Brunswick), 1990
M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University, 1995

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Professor of Russian and English:
Co-director, Jewish Studies Program
Specializes in Russian, Jewish, and Anglo-American literature, comparative literature, translation studies, and creative writing.

 EN175 - Jewish Writers in Russia & America

 EN227- Classics/Russian Literature-English

 EN303- Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

EN775 - Nabokov

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007 forthcoming)
• An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two centuries of a Dual, 1801-2001, 2 vols. (Armonk, New York and London, M E Sharpe, 2007).
• David Shrayer-Petrov, Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories, by David Shrayer-Petrov, edited and cotranslated by Maxim D. Shrayer (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006).
• Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America, by David Shrayer-Petrov, edited and cotranslated by Maxim D. Shrayer (Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2003).
• Russian Poet/Soviet Jew: The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
• Nabokov: Themes and Variations (St. Petersburg; Academic Project, 2000).
• The World of Nabokov's Stories (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1999).
  

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

Maxim D. Shrayer's English-language translations, prose, and poetry have appeared in AGNI, Commentary, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, Salmagundi,
Southwest Review and other magazines. He is the author of 3 collections of Russian verse: Tabun nad lugom (Herd above the Meadow, 1990), Amerikanskii
romans (Amerikan romance, 1994), and N'iukheivenskie sonety (New Haven Sonnets, 1998).